Toronto, ONTARIO – (March 9, 2018) – RTDNA Canada is pleased to recognize excellence in electronic journalism in the West Region with the finalists for the regional awards. RTDNA Canada Awards honour the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital. “It has been another tumultuous year for journalism in this

Toronto, ONTARIO – (March 9, 2018) – RTDNA Canada is pleased to recognize excellence in electronic journalism in the West Region with the finalists for the regional awards.

RTDNA Canada Awards honour the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital. “It has been another tumultuous year for journalism in this country but Canadian journalists have stood up to every challenge with passion, integrity and fortitude,” says RTDNA Canada President Ian Koenigsfest. “These prestigious RTDNA awards not only recognize excellence in journalism, they also reflect a healthy, vibrant and increasingly curious profession determined to remain committed to seeking out facts, balance and objectivity.”

CBC Radio One, Gas Station Fuels Change on Lheidli T’enneh First Nation

CKNW, Confidence Vote

Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award

CBC Vancouver, Is This an Overdose Crisis or a Poisoning Crisis?

CFAX 1070, Adam Stirling on Remembrance Day

NEWS 1130, A Minute With Bill Good, 13-Sep-17

Radio News Information Program – Peter Gzowski Award

CBC Radio One, Daybreak Kamloops

CKNW, The Jon McComb Show, “Fairytales of Royal Princesses and Senseless Politics”

CKNW, The Simi Sara Show, “The Day Christy Clark Resigned”

Sports – Feature Reporting Award

CBC Kamloops, Coach Kirk: Courage in the Face of Death, CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One, Major Misconduct: Why We Let Kids Fight On Ice

CKNW, The Choices We Make

Television

Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award

CTV Vancouver, BC Forest Fires

CTV Vancouver, Officer Down, The Shooting of Constable John Davidson

Global BC, “Abbotsford Officer Shot”

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

CBC Vancouver, Fallen Officer

CTV News Vancouver Island, Parkinson’s Drug

Global BC, “BC Wildfires”

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award

CHEK, Angel Rises Up

CTV News Vancouver Island, Becoming A Superstar

Global BC, “Inspirational Wrestler”

Long Feature (Small/Medium Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CKPG News, Cougar Tracks: Sam Ruopp

News-Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award

CBC Vancouver, British Columbia Votes

CTV Vancouver, Election 2017

Global BC, “BC Government Falls”

Global BC, “Constable Davidson Funeral”

Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award

CTV Vancouver, Officer Down, The Last Word With Mike McCardell

Short Feature (Small/Medium Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CKPG News, The Cariboo

CTV News Vancouver Island, Biggest Little Fan

CTV News Vancouver Island, Survive

Global Okanagan, The Nooner

Short Feature (Large Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CTV Vancouver, Keeper of the Flag

Global BC, “Canadian Hockey Player’s Fight”

Global BC, “Yaletown Street Cleaner”

Sports – Feature Reporting Award

CHEK, Octogenarian Pole Vaulter

CTV News Vancouver Island, The Long Shots

CTV Vancouver, Gone But Never Forgotten, A Coach’s Story

TV News Information Program – Trina McQueen Award

CBC Vancouver, Our Vancouver, Life by the Ocean

Global BC, “Leadership Series – Glen Clark”

TV Newscast (Small/Medium Market) – Bert Cannings Award

CHEK, Snowstorm, CHEK News at 5

CTV News Vancouver Island, CTV News At 6

Global Okanagan, Global Okanagan, News @ 5

TV Newscast (Large Market) – Bert Cannings Award

CBC Vancouver, CBC News Vancouver at 6, July 10, 2017 – Wildfires

CTV Vancouver, CTV News at 6

Global BC, Global BC – BC Wildfires

Video – Hugh Haugland Award

CBC Vancouver, Frozen on the Fraser

CBC Vancouver, Raging Wildfire Guts Ashcroft Cattle Farm

CTV Vancouver, One-Handed Shooter

About RTDNA

RTDNA Canada is the voice of broadcast and digital journalists and news managers in Canada. We believe an informed public is vital to a democratic society. Canadian Journalisms purpose is to serve the public interest. It is our responsibility to act independently, to be fair and respectful, and to report the facts. The RTDNA Canada Code of Journalistic Ethics, adopted by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, is used to measure fairness and accuracy in our profession. We welcome its adoption by all practicing journalists.

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Ben

March 21, 2018, 4:31 pm

an FYI – it should read the "Hugh Haugland Award", not the "Hugh Hauland" – Hugh was a colleague of mine while I was at CTV in Montreal. A fantastic cameraman/editor, and the son of longtime CTV Montreal anchor Bill Haugland, he was killed in a helicopter crash while working in Mont Laurier, north of Montreal, in 2009. Hugh was just 44, and the father of two teens.